Post-internationalist America: Isolationists, progressives changing US foreign policy direction

BORN in 1942 in the midst of World War II, US President Joe Biden grew up as a kid in the first years of the Cold War.

And he has been a foreign-policy bridge of sorts linking the generation that established the foundations of the post-1945 international system and the American leaders who presided over the end of the Cold War.

Like his Democratic and Republican predecessors who led the United States in the aftermath of the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union, President Biden’s approach to global affairs reflects both the changing international balance of power and the evolving sentiments of the American people.